1

TREATISE

&c.

VOL. II.

ON THE WISDOM AND GOODNESS OF THE CREATOR.

Permittes ipsis expendere Numinibus, quid
Conveniat nobis, rebusque sit utile nostris ;
Carior est illis homo, quàm sibi.

Juv.

LONDON:

IBOTSON AND PALMER, PRINTERS, SAVOY STREET, SIRAND.

D

A

TREATISE

ON THE

RECORDS OF THE CREATION,

AND ON THE

MORAL ATTRIBUTES OF THE CREATOR;

WITH

PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE JEWISH HISTORY,

AND

TO THE CONSISTENCY OF THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION WITH

THE WISDOM AND GOODNESS OF THE DEITY.

BY JOHN BIRD SUMNER, D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

FIFTH EDITION.

LONDON:

J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY.

MDCCCXXXIII.

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